The Onset of the Supercycle at SlatorCon Remote September 2021
Currently at the onset of a language industry supercycle, clients and LSPs trade localization strategies and recall journeys to maturity at SlatorCon Remote.
Jochen Hummel
Semantix Partners with ESTeam, Summa Linguae on EUR 34m EU Translation Contract
EUR 34m translation contract covers a whopping 522 possible language combinations for draft text regulations, notifications, and exchanges on a Member State communication system.
Slator’s Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2019
Mergers and acquisitions helped the biggest LSPs get even bigger; AB5 prompts protests; bankruptcy, layoffs, and a canceled contract; and new standards for interpreters.
Slator Job Index Climbs During Record-Breaking August 2019
Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, hits record levels in August 2019.
Reader Polls: MT and Subject Matter Expertise, Future CAT, Outperforming LSPs
Is subject matter expertise gaining at the expense of source language proficiency? Has the future CAT yet to be invented? Will LSPs continue to delight investors?
Creator of Trados Joins Summa Linguae Board, Says CAT Tools Will Become Obsolete
Trados founder Jochen Hummel discusses the demise of the product category he helped create, what has delayed full NMT disruption, and what’s next for human translators.
Here’s What Happened at the World’s Biggest Machine Translation Conference
As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks.
Slator 2018 Blockchain and Translation Report
24-page report. Blockchain and Translation industry overview. ICOs, business use-cases, solution analysis, crypto chatter and further reading, a cautionary tale.
Is Google’s Cloud-Based Natural Language Processing a Breakthrough?
Google just launched a paid, cloud-based natural language processing service that offers entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and syntax analysis. Exclusive analysis by Expert System CTO Marco Varone, LT-Innovate Chairman Jochen Hummel, and industry analyst Seth Grimes.
EU Commissioner Calls Multilingualism Business Hurdle, Advocates Language Tech
Profile of language technology raised as European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip calls overcoming language barriers vital for building Europe’s Digital Single Market. Statement marks milestone for lobbying efforts by advocacy group LT-Innovate.
EUIPO Awards EUR 14.5m Contract to TextMinded and ESTeam
Danish language service provider and Swedish software company team up to form a joint-venture and deliver on the four-year framework agreement. Contract revolves around managing linguistic resources that form the foundation of EUIPO’s huge data repository.
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